On Browsing

While awash in Golden Age nostalgia, Jason Guriel’s On Browsing did remind me how much I do find comfort in simply browsing shelves. Bookstores in particular give me a sense of calm and joy. Sure, I spend all day working both a library and bookstore, but there is something peacefully pleasant in see......more

Apparently, there are droves of us who miss the tactile pleasure of combing through physical matter, of hefting books, of standing at a bin and clacking CDs like dominoes. This collection of evocative and eloquent personal essays is the ultimate nostalgia trip. It represents a love letter to the disa......more

Liz at Biblioasis was kind enough to send me an advance reader's copy of this, which is #6 in their Field Notes series. As an early millennial born in '85, and remembering what life was like before the Internet took over, this collection of essays on the lost joy of browsing was very nostalgic. While......more

A short book of essays after my own heart. Perhaps only curmudgeons will like this book, but it raised and explained all my quirky values concerning books and bookstores and records and anything but amazon. In fact I wrote something along these lines myself once several years back: [URL not allowed]......more

i thought this book would be a lot more philosophical, rather than expressions of pop culture nostalgia. loved the theme but each essay wasn’t great to me......more